Premiere: Iury LECH – Barreras (Powder remix)

Last year saw the much-needed reissue of Iury Lech’s balearic classic, Musica Para El Fin De Los Cantos, on Cocktail d’Amore.Recorded by the Ukrainian artist in Barcelona between 1989 and 1990, the album is a masterclass in ambient textures and sun-kissed sound design. Not content with simply making this work available to us again, the label has announced a remix EP, featuring reinterpretations by Powder, Suzanne Kraft, Hatchback and Zavoloka.

Powder made her debut on the label last year with H, a record inspired by CockTail d’Amore’s Berlin party in 2015, and she now returns to rework album highlight, ‘Barreras’, into a tripping house jam. She underpins the track with a simple but driving rhythm section, consisting just of a four-to-the-floor kick offset by syncopated sub-bass, a subtle mid-range snare, claves a shaker and occasional smatterings of percussion. Rhythmic propulsion also comes with elements from the original track, ambient pads and bells transformed with a stutter effect, more and less recognisable samples layered into a collage of swirling balearic atmospheres.

Musica Para El Fin De Los Cantos: Reinterpretaciones is out 5th March – buy from Juno and Phonica.